Judy Faulkner’s advice to women in health IT

Epics CEO encouraged women to forget the glass ceiling and use the fact that they are not men to their advantage. That advice doubled as a window into Faulkners long-standing philosophy to both keep the EHR company she founded private and to develop new technologies rather than acquiring other companies to get obtain them. Faulkner also said the corporate culture she created at Epic runs counter to many tech companies because they are run by MBAs rather than people with technology chops and programming skills.Are you a missionary focused on a mission, she posed. Or are you a mercenary? The latter being beholden to quarterly earnings.